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This chocolate cake recipe is voted one of the best chocolate cakes ever by my friends and family. Kathleen's chocolate cake is the chocolate cake recipe from Kathleen Grant, the mother of one of my oldest friends. Sadly Kathleen died several years ago and her recipe book, written over a number of years, was found when sorting through her belongings.

Kathleen uses margarine in the recipe; it was written at a time when margarine was preferable to butter which was in short supply after WW11. I recommend you now use a mixture of soft butter and margarine, it works even better and adds much more flavor to the cake.

Thanks to reader feedback, this cake recipe has been slightly adjusted and updated to include different measurements which though sadly now not an accurate transcript of Kathleen's recipe, works better with modern ovens and ingredients.

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